Thursday, November 01, 2012

Obama's pastors

During Obama’s inauguration, Lowery declared, “Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get [in] back… [and] when white will embrace what is right.”

Lowery told the black population in America - on Obama's first day as President - that other people were holding them back; and he told the white population that they had not embraced God's truth. Lowery deliberately evoked the Jim-Crow regulations which put blacks at the back of the bus. By this, Lowery said that none of this desegregation stuff mattered. He said, to use Christian jargon, that whites had not atoned.

Blacks are victims; whites are villains - villains against blacks. For Lowery, whites are going to hell; and, since there's no direct oppression going on, whites are damned for the sin of not wanting to be on the hook for subsidising black dysfunction for all eternity. For not wanting to be blacks' slaves.

It's not just Obama. Obama is just Black America's figurehead monarch. It's the whole of Black America that accepts this narrative. (It is also the American government, but that's another rant.)